Headway Magazine: Law Fusion

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The Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law is
breaking new ground with international research programs into legal
education that integrates civil and common law, and the global
expansion of trust law.

by Jeff Roberts

In the McGill Faculty of Law's undergraduate program, every
student is trained in civil and common law, an unusual education
that produces lawyers able to work in either of the Western world's
two major legal traditions... But McGill's integrated philosophy
isn't about maintaining twin solitudes, and it isn't restricted to
the classroom. Rather, the University's legal scholars use their
understanding of both traditions to find innovative ways of
approaching and understanding juridical challenges, both old and
new.